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Tango · Damiano David

EXERCISE 4 OF 14
Groove D
46 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBS1HS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tango on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14, silence through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-50 and silence through bars 51-54, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 17-28 and 30-35, and 2 more places -- 74.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Tango -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tango?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Tango hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Tango?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED